Binghamton University student receives Graduate Excellence Award

BINGHAMTON, NY (04/01/2014)(readMedia)-- Each year, Binghamton University honors the special achievements of those graduates who distinguish themselves in the areas of service to their department/academic program, school, and/or the University. The University also recognizes students who have made outstanding contributions through their efforts to reach out to the community by applying their skills, knowledge and experiences related to their graduate education.

Jennifer Sweeney from Cleveland, OH has recently received a Graduate Student Excellence in Service and Outreach award from Binghamton University, State University of New York:

Jennifer Sweeney has put much of her intellectual energy and time into cultivating an active community of scholars, but also looks beyond academics to serve Binghamton University. Her nominators write that improving the communities she lives within remains a crucial aspect of her graduate education. As president of the Graduate English Organization, she developed and coordinated a professionalization conference. She helped organize three "Shifting Tides and Anxious Borders' graduate student conferences, helped establish a reading group to extend conference discussions and coordinated a book swap for the Broome County Library. For two years, she served as assistant debate coach for Binghamton University's highly successful debate team, also helping to plan and organize an annual tournament that drew 700 people to campus. Her service extends well beyond the academic arena, as proven by her work with the Office of International Programs to orient exchange students, and with University Police to offer self-defense classes to women.

Binghamton University is one of the four university centers of the State University of New York. Known for the excellence of its students, faculty, staff and programs, Binghamton enrolls close to 15,000 students in programs leading to bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees. Its curriculum, founded in the liberal arts, has expanded to include selected professional and graduate programs.